Sundance Channel will no longer be available on Astro starting 1 July 2016. Official reply from Astro: As part of its best business practice, Astro continuously reviews its content proposition to offer the best choices and a variety of compelling content for our customers. In line with this, any channel that is unable to fulfill these objectives will be reviewed. To this end, we regret to inform that effective from June 30, 2016 at 23:59 hours, the Sundance channel (Channel 438) will cease transmission. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. Astro launched eGG or Every Good Game, the first and dedicated 24/7 eSports channel in the South East Asia region. Fans of eSports will be delighted to know that they can enjoy popular eSports tournaments like League of Legends, Dota 2, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft II, FIFA Online 3 and many more on this channel via Astro and Astro on the Go on eGG channel 808 starting 7 June 2016. This channel is in HD quality. Currently, all Astro customers using Astro B.yond box can enjoy the free preview from 7 June 2016 to 30 June 2016. After that, you can continue watching eGG if you subscribe to either Family HD or Sports Pack. This channel is not available on legacy Astro decoders and Njoi. How to watch this channel?eGG Network: You need to subscribe either Basic HD Pack (also known as Family HD Pack) or Sports Pack.
Didn't subscribe to HD? Subscribe now. TVB and Astro is launching a new package, and it is called Jade Pack. It consists of the following TVB channels, of which three are new in Malaysian market – TVB Jade (Ch. 326), Asian Action Channel (Ch.327), Classic Movies (Ch. 328) – in addition to TVB E-News (Ch. 313), TVB Xing He (Ch. 314), TVBS Asia (Ch. 317) and TVB Classic (Ch. 305), some of which premiere on the same day as Hong Kong.
These channels will start its broadcast on Astro from 1st May 2016 onwards. Astro customers on B.yond set-top-boxes will be able to enjoy a free preview of the channels in Jade Pack from 1st to 15th May 2016. In conjunction with the launch of 10 new channels, with 8 HD and 2 SD channels, the HD service fee will be revised, and this will affect to the customers subscribed to:
HD service, which will be revised from RM20/month to RM25/month. Basic HD service, which will be revised from RM12/month to RM17/month. Super Pack 1, 2 and 4, increase from RM133 to RM138/month Value Pack 1, 2 and 3, increase from RM75 to RM80/month Family HD or Chuen Min HD, increase from RM51.95 to RM56.95/month Super Pack 3 and Astro B.yond IPTV customers are not affected. The rates above are not included 6% GST |
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